Well, if it is Professor Landry, I’ll be let down. It’s great to see Keith acting as Sheriff.
After this week, it’s eight weeks off to find a new Pussycat Doll.
By the way, is Percy Daggs just signed for 2 minutes an episode? What’s up with Wallace’s brief appearances? Zero is better than a little.
What’s up with Landry’s teaching assistant (I forget the guy’s name). Do we know for sure that he didn’t do it? There have been some weird shots of him tonight that sort of lead me to believe he did it? Has he ever been a suspect? My memory is down right now.
Scratch that question, it appears to be moot. I had only watched about 10 minutes of the episode when I asked it.
Not that moot.
Teachers from first grade right through university have tried to get it into my thick skull that I should always trust my first instinct. Apparently, i have work to do.
Tonght’s moral is:
Never, ever, try to outwit Veronica Mars.
I’m confused. Did Landry fake his alibi with the cigarette woman or didn’t he?
I’m confused too. There’s no way I can get it to come out right.
Torrie bums a smoke from Landry at the precise time Cyrus is being murdered. How does Tim make that look faked?
I’m assuming everything we saw in the flashbacks happened the way we saw it.
I think Landry really did give a woman a cigarette. Either she forgot it, or Tim lied about what she said. Remember, Tim talked to the real Tori offscreen. He also called the mother and told her to talk to Veronica, knowing she would get caught.
At least don’t gloat about it in front of her!
He would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for that pesky kid and her dog!
Nice denoument. I wasn’t actually sure that they’d wrap up this arc before the hiatus, until Veronica found the bug in her phone. Then I knew it was all going to unravel somehow. Then it hit me that it was Tim.
And to repeat the question that I posed last night in last week’s thread… now that the Dean’s murder arc has finished, was it about anything deeper? The first two seasons generally explored variations on the same stuff like class warfare and rich people thinking that they could buy themselves out of the law… the Hearst rapes had all sorts of stuff about battle of the sexes and sexual attitudes… (frat boys versus lilith house, etcetera.) What did we have this time around??
I’ll take a stab at my question and propose ‘love, secrets, and deception…’ Seems to fit with all of the stuff about the Cyrus-Mindy-Landry triangle, the Veronica-Logan subplot arcs, and in a twisted way it even resonates with Tim’s motives as the killer. 
And we didn’t get a cliffhanger surprise for the third arc of the season I believe. How many episodes are left? Is it just going to be a may-sweeps thing, since everybody is talking about ‘the eight weeks of the pussycats.’ (I don’t get the CW, just syndication on Sun TV in toronto, so hopefully I’ll get some classic Veronica reruns instead!)
I knew the TA was gonna be guilty of something the first time I set eyes on him, and I’ll wager we’re not through with him yet: his hair and beard look totally fake; he’s in disguise. I think he’s a chick.
Nah, he’s Lucky!
I had a feeling it was going to be Tim. They made such a point of making him a suspect in the rapes, and when it turned out to not be him, without them offering up any sort of character info that made him less creepy and sketchy, you just knew they were saving him for something else.
He also helped push the catching through by “finding” the disposible cell phone (which turned out to be his biggest mistake IMO) and allowing Veronica to “discover” the deception.
I loved the fact that Mindy thought Landry did it and Landry thought Mindy did it and both cast guilt on themselves in one way or another by covering for each other.
How will Veronica ever get into the FBI intern program now? I can’t imagine Quantico will look too kindly on an application supported by a dead dean and a murdering (OK, manslaughtering) professor.
I too am slightly baffled at Landry’s alibi attempt.
Also of interest post-reveal: Tim had some half-decent reasons for arranging to find the disk of phone conversations in the ex-husband’s place so that Veronica would listen to them… he really did want to help find where Landry might have fled, in a believable way, and possibly to let Veronica discover some other things from those conversations that would fit in with the frame that he’d built.
But he REALLY shouldn’t have included the call that demonstrated his own motive on the disk that he let Veronica find. That was really sloppy. 
He should have known that she’d be curious enough to listen to it later, even if she hadn’t clicked on it with him right there.
Also - why did he leave the information on that guy who’d heard the gunshot on his computer? (Admittedly, he probably couldn’t have anticipated that V would go to such lengths to crack his password, especially since she was on an unrelated case at the time.) Did anybody else know about that guy hearing the shot at the time Veronica found the note? Was Tim just trying to remind himself to keep an eye on the guy in case he talked to anyone else who mattered?
Wonder if we’re going to see Bonnie again. Never really found out what became of her and Tim after the end of the morning-after-pill case.
Fortunately for Veronica, the dean wrote his recommendation before he was dead.
By the way: Surrey, England? That seemed really random, since Mindy didn’t have an accent.
I think Landry’s alibi was real - he did give a cigarette to a woman at that time - just not that particular woman. Tim decided to make the alibi seem false by calling the stripper and ordering her to show up and claim to be the alibi, knowing she would get caught out. This made Landry look guilty.
So… Tim’s motive for killing the Dean was simply to frame Landry, to get revenge because he overheard Landry giving him a bad reference? Why was he bugging the professor’s phone in the first place? And how did he get Veronica’s phone in order to bug it?
You know what’s an even bigger obstacle? The fact that the FBI is convinced she helped Duncan kidnap his baby to Mexico, and they’re right. Even though they couldn’t prove she did it, I doubt they want her working for them. Either that or they figure if they can’t beat her, they should let her join up.